Vegetable and Meat Stew

Ingredients

• Peas
• Diced carrots
• Diced potatoes
• Green beans (thin), chopped
• 1 kg small-cut beef (chuck/shoulder) or bone-in meat, as desired
• 6 tomatoes
• 1 dry onion
• 1 head garlic
• A bunch of fresh cilantro (coriander)
• 1 can or 2 tbsp tomato paste
• Hot chili powder to taste
• 1 tbsp pomegranate molasses
• Black pepper
• Meat spice blend (baharat) or steak seasoning
• Salt
• Vegetable oil
• Rice:
• 3 cups basmati rice
• 2 tbsp vegetable oil
• 5 cups hot water
• 1 tsp butter
• Rice method:
• Rinse the rice and soak it in hot water for 30 minutes.
• In a pot, heat the oil, drain the rice and add it to the pot, then add the hot water — the water should be about 5 cm above the rice.
• Recipe and method for the vegetable stew from our friend and cook on Shou Tabkhin Today:
• Fatima Zahwi Ghamloush
• Click Fatima’s name to visit her page on our site and see her other delicious recipes
• To make Fatima’s tomato cumin (kamounah) method, click this link: Tomato Kamounah Recipe
• For more tasty stews, try this spinach stew: Spinach Stew

Method

1. Chop the garlic, onion, and cilantro and put them in a pot over the heat with three tablespoons vegetable oil, a pinch of salt, a pinch of black pepper, and a pinch of meat seasoning; sauté until they are almost cooked...
2. Add the meat and stir, then cover the pot and turn the meat every now and then..
3. When the meat is also nearing doneness, place the vegetables on top with the tomato cut into four pieces and stir
4. Add the tomato paste and pomegranate molasses, stir, and cover them with hot water…
5. Once it boils, reduce the heat and leave it for one hour, taking care not to stir vigorously so as to preserve the texture of the vegetables
6. Serve the vegetable and meat stew with rice
7. Wash the rice and leave it soaking in hot water for half an hour.
8. Prepare a pot, put in the oil, add the drained rice, then add the hot water.. The water should be just 5 cm above the rice
9. When the rice water begins to boil and bubbles appear and the water starts to dry up.. add the butter, then lower the heat and cover the rice pot with a clean cloth made for rice and place the pot lid over it
10. Leave the white rice over low heat for 15 to 30 minutes until fully cooked, then turn off the heat….
11. Fatima Zahwi Gamloush
12. To make Tomato Kumina in Fatima’s style as well, click this link: How to prepare Tomato Kumina
13. For more delicious stews.. here is the tasty spinach stew at this link: Spinach Stew